The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1887-04-07
REFUTED.
Misstatements of the Southern SWIngsr
, Pointed Out.
The Nashville Speech Fired Upon by Demo-
cratic Gums Record Of the Last
Session OF the National
Legislature.

be. From the fact that all the other
Kentucky Representatives have gone
nome, In addition to the extra burdens
imposed upon him by the Speakership,
he has found plenty Of public business
to occupy his time here. Early this
morning he went to Baltimore for q
short "Trip. He will probably return to
morrow. A few hours before his de.
partUre the Enquirer correspondent was
fortunate enough to obtain his views on
several important topics, especially
those touched upon In Senator Sherman's
Nashville speech and upon the business
of the last Congress, about which there
has been good deal Of frivolous CON-
ment In the newspapers.
Mr.. Carlisle Is an easy, fluent talker,
and his convictions on public matters
are so wsll settled that he doesn't have
to hesitate and hedge as he goes along
for fear that he will make q mistake.
When he consents to tai for public
print, the interviewer has compare.
lively easy time of 1t. When Mr.. Car.
Isle takes up point upon which intOr
nation or opinion Is desired, he COM
pletely, though tersely, covers The
ground
WITHOUT THE NEWSPAPER PROD.
"Have you read Senator Sherman's
speech, made at Nashville evening be-
fore lastP" asked the Enquirer.
''Yes, I have read II carefully" an
swered Mr.. Carlisle.
"Whst do You think Of itP"
"IG view If the purpose for which it
srgp MI dow tlgyr I'D rft
speech, but Ii a full Of loose and inaC-
Gurate sJ@i mants and erroneous cOnelO-
aiOns. Il would require too much time
10 point them all out, but l will call
your attention to one or two OF them
which it seems TO me gentleman Oc-
cupyng Senator SheTman's position
ought o have avoided If he really ln-
tended TO give the country correct in-
formation concerning public matters.
For instance, speaking of the Morrison
Tariff bill, which was pending In the
House Of Representatives, during the
last SESSION, he aays 1t proposes to leave
the taxes Oh tobacco, sugar and CLOTH
Ing, but take them off Of coal and iron
and the articles made of iron, for which
We have tho greatest supply OF raw ma
terial,' &e., Sc. Why Senator Sherman
should permit himself to make such a
statement 40 this in carefully prepar-
ed speech Is incOmprehensible to me,
unless he as slumed that his audience had
never read the bill and never could read
it, and that he could therefore
MAKE A LITTLE CAPITAL
For his parry In State having large
coal and iron interests. If the Senator
has not read the bill himself he ought
not to have discussed 1t, and If he has
read 1t be ought not to have discussed
it In the manner he did. The truth Is
the bill to which he refers proposed TO
reduce tho taxes on sugar and clothing,
and did not propose to take one cent off
Of coal and iron or the duties made of
iron. II passed 1t would not have af.
| feeted the rates of duty upon coal, or
upon Gny article in the metal schedule
nt the law az il now stands. Anthracite
coal, which Ia used almost exclusively
| by the great manufacturing corpora
tions of the East and very extensively
by rich people In the cities, Is now free
| from taxation under the Republican
tariff law which Mr.. Sherman approves,
bat it seems he would consider 1t very
| improper 10 take the tx off bltumiuOus
coal, which is used by the poor to warm
their houses and cook their food In al
most every city and town In the country,
| Equality in the imposition of taxes is
something the Senator, 1t appears, will
not submit to without protest In ad-
vance.
"In discussing the tariff question, u
Mr.. Carlisle continued, "he says our total
importatiOns amounted to 1926, 100000,
upon which the duties we're $l88, ,000,O
being, as he lays, an average rate of
duty Of about 80 per cent but he shows
/ further along that this sum of $188, ,000,-
600 is really only collectei upon impor
tatiOns amounting to $414 700, ,0G0, 40
that the tax upon the taxable articles is
nearly 46 per cent. upon their entire
value.
If the people Of Tennessee were com
pei ed to pay annually into the treasury
| Of their State 46 per cent upon the value
| Of all their taxable property, they would
not listen with much patience to an ar
| gument for continuance of the burden,
no matter what the pretext might be-
| The fast that This enormous rate OF tax
Il hkAVh lS GhC w BAO
they are compelled to eat, drink and
wear, iDstead OF their lands and houses
and other property, does not mitigate
the severity IN the least degree, but
really aggTavates 1t, because the man OF
small me tns If often compelled to pay
more than the man of large means. 1t
Is tax upon consumption, and not a
tax upon property"
THE SILVER QUESTION.
Mr.. Carlisle's attention was next
directed to what MIR. Sherman had said
On the silver question.
in the speech referred to Mr.. Sher.
man says: THE silver, which our Dem.
ocratic friends favored as the cheaper
form of currency, which the Govern
ment bought Ht ST. en- ounce, and e0iled
as money at $l25 per Ouace was stored
away In vaults Instead Of being repre
sen ted and used in the form of CeTtia-
Gates for the purchase of gold coin and
bullion as previous Administration had
done
snow, let us see what are the actual
facts" said MIR. Carlisle, "in relation to
the Issue ana circulation OF silver GER
Jiicates by the present Administration
as shown by the official record. have
no data which will enable me to state
accurately the amount of such Certifl
Gates In the hands OF the people on the
fourth day of March, 1885, when the Ad
ministratiOn took charge of the Treae-
ury Department. buta few months after
ward, on the Both Of June, 1885, the
whole amount OF eilver certificates In
circulation was $101 SOC, 600, while OO
the first day of this month the amount
was $12l 100000. being an increase of
nearly $20,000000. At the very time
Mr.. Sherman was crit cislng the Admin
istratiOn, 1t had out In the hands Of the